Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missed," Flannery explains. "These are the run-of-the-mill cases, such as consumer fraud and welfare cases. But there are many cases that require resources in terms of personnel and time available. Many local offices are avalanched and aren't well-equipped to undertake more reform-oriented cases. These type of cases will suffer. And that's the object of the deletion by Congress...
...special report on Rebozo and his friends was but one part of the complete report that the Senate Watergate committee issued. Within this exhaustive document, based on the testimony and other evidence, are 35 suggestions for governmental reform...
...right to impose electoral rules on state legislatures? Said Justice John Harlan: "This [majority] view, in a nutshell, is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle,' and that this court should 'take the lead' in promoting reform when other branches of government fail to act." Yale's Professor Alexander Bickel complained that the court "seems to lack a sense of the limitations of the institution...
...California, according to the state police, there is a sexual assault on a woman on the average of once every 20 minutes. Says Massachusetts Representative Jon Rotenberg, who was active in pushing through two rape-reform bills in the state legislature: "The threat of rape affects women of all ages who are afraid to go out at night, to live alone, to ride the subway or wait...
...California. The bachelor son of former Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown chose to switch from a Jesuit seminary to Yale Law School in the early 1960s, became a civil rights activist and antiwar crusader. By using the long-ignored power of his office-secretary of state-to implement campaign reform, he soon began making a name of his own, most recently by launching a well-publicized investigation into President Nixon's tax returns. Stiffer than his convivial father, he is nonetheless winning strong support as an outspoken reformer...